The Miami mansion where notorious Chicago gangster Al Capone died after beign released from Alcatraz is up for sale.

The sprawling, waterfront compound is where Capone is supposed to have plotted the St Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929.

The 10,000-square-foot baby blue mansion sits on exclusive Palm Island, sandwiched in Biscayne Bay between downtown Miami's skyscrapers and South Beach's hotel district and is on the market for $8.5 million (just over £5 million).

The current owner, a Florida company purchased the home barely six months ago for $7.4 million.

After Capone died in 1947, the home remained in his family until sometime in the 1970s, when it was bought by Henry Morrison, a pilot for Delta Airlines.